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Murdering Holiness : The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law and Society SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774851916
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Murdering HolinessDDC classification:
  • 345.797/02523
LOC classification:
  • KF224.C69 -- P48 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Principal Characters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Creffield Sect in Corvallis, 1903 -- 3 Driving Out the Sect: The Triumph of the White Caps, 1903-1904 -- 4 "Sensualist Practices Prescribed and Ordained as Coming from Heaven": Sex and the Creffield Sect -- 5 Disciplining the Sect: Invoking Insanity Law, 1904 -- 6 Revival and Revenge, January to May 1906 -- 7 Seattle Prepares for Trial, May and June 1906 -- 8 Justifiable Homicide and the Unwritten Law: Seattle Debates the Mitchell Case -- 9 The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 1: Jury Selection and the Case for the Prosecution -- 10 The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 2: The Unwritten Law -- 11 "And the Evil That Men Do Lives After Them": The Death of George Mitchell -- 12 The Law, Maud Creffield, and Esther Mitchell -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Creffield Sect Membership -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, in the early years of the 20th century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Principal Characters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Creffield Sect in Corvallis, 1903 -- 3 Driving Out the Sect: The Triumph of the White Caps, 1903-1904 -- 4 "Sensualist Practices Prescribed and Ordained as Coming from Heaven": Sex and the Creffield Sect -- 5 Disciplining the Sect: Invoking Insanity Law, 1904 -- 6 Revival and Revenge, January to May 1906 -- 7 Seattle Prepares for Trial, May and June 1906 -- 8 Justifiable Homicide and the Unwritten Law: Seattle Debates the Mitchell Case -- 9 The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 1: Jury Selection and the Case for the Prosecution -- 10 The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 2: The Unwritten Law -- 11 "And the Evil That Men Do Lives After Them": The Death of George Mitchell -- 12 The Law, Maud Creffield, and Esther Mitchell -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Creffield Sect Membership -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, in the early years of the 20th century.

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